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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Martinez, Deborah, DCA <Deborah.Martinez1@state.nm.us><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Zillmann, Daniel, DCA <Daniel.Zillmann@state.nm.us><br>
<b>Subject:</b> State Poet Laureate nominations and applications now open</font>
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<p class="x_paragraph" style="margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif">Greetings, I’m Deborah Martinez, the new public relations specialist supporting New Mexico Arts.</span></p>
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<span class="x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif; color:#222222">Nominations and applications are now open for the next New Mexico Poet Laureate.
</span></span><span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif; color:black">The poet supports literacy and enhances education, while promoting arts enrichment in every part of the state, and award
includes a $10,000 stipend.</span></span><span class="x_eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif; color:black"> The current poet laureate is Levi Romero of the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico.</span></span></p>
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<span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif; color:#222222">Nominations are open through April 15, 2022. More information about the program and the nomination process are available at </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif"><a href="https://poetry.nmculture.org/" target="_blank"><span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="color:#0563C1">https://poetry.nmculture.org/</span></span></a></span><span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif; color:#222222"> or
by emailing </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif"><a href="mailto:poetry.center@state.nm.us" target="_blank"><span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="color:#0563C1">poetry.center@state.nm.us</span></span></a></span><span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif; color:#222222">.
The full news release is </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif"><a href="https://media.newmexicoculture.org/release/1395/the-new-mexico-state" target="_blank"><span class="x_normaltextrun"><span lang="EN" style="color:#0563C1">here.</span></span></a><span class="x_eop"><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif">Deborah Martinez</span></p>
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